May 06

Monday 06, 2002:

The World Wrestling Federation announces that they have changed their name to World Wrestling Entertainment after losing a court battle with the World Wildlife Fund.

Friday 06, 1994:

Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and French President François Mitterrand inaugurate the opening of the Channel Tunnel – a tunnel under the English Channel linking England and France for the first time since the end of the Great Ice Age.

Wednesday 06, 1942:

World War II: On Corregidor, the last American forces in the Philippines surrender to the Japanese.

Sunday 06, 1877:

Realizing that his people were weakened by cold and hunger, Chief Crazy Horse of the Oglala Sioux surrenders to United States troops in Nebraska.

Wednesday 06, 1835:

James Gordon Bennett, Sr. publishes the first issue of the New York Herald.